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Last week, Apple decided that it was going to take on the FBI and oppose a court order to decrypt a criminal's iPhone. This has sparked up the encryption debate once again, a debate that Apple would like to see settled by a government commission of experts. Tim Cook has also called on the FBI to withdraw its demand for backdoor access to an iPhone as well.
The company explained its position a bit more in a new Q&A page that can be found on the Apple website. There is also an internal memo floating around in which Cook explained to Apple employees why this is important, as complying with the FBI's order would set a “dangerous precedent” for the future.
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“We feel the best way forward would be for the government to withdraw its demands under the All Writs Act and, as some in Congress have proposed, form a commission or other panel of experts on intelligence, technology and civil liberties to discuss the implications for law enforcement, national security, privacy and personal freedoms.”
On the Q&A page, Apple added that while it would be possible for them to re-write its OS to undermine security features, this would make iPhones vulnerable to future attacks: “The only way to guarantee that such a powerful tool isn’t abused and doesn’t fall into the wrong hands is to never create it”.
KitGuru Says: There has been a lot of debate on this topic after the last week or so. What do you guys think? Should Apple be open to decrypting devices owned by criminals? Or should Apple keep pushing for better security on devices?
backdoor implies that criminal investigators want hidden access, which isn’t the case. they want apple to help them break through the encryption on phones belonging to prosecuted criminals (we’re talking about more then just suspected terrorists, we’re talking about murderers, rapists, pedophiles). sure, it has the potential to escalate to full on planed backdoor access for governments to snoop on their citizens, but there are plenty of watchdog groups in place to lobby against that and the alternative apple suggests is to just let criminals get away with their crimes.
the FBI are court ordering Apple to create a piece of software that can be booted onto the phone in question to allow access to it. That means Apple needs to create a backdoor to get around their encryption so the software can use it. Once the FBI have that software they can use it all they want or at the very least reverse engineer it to create their own version, after all who’s going to stop them?
Apple creating a backdoor for this piece of software is not only bad news because of government agencies but also because freelance hackers can then exploit this backdoor to gain access to personal information, passwords, bank details etc etc.
“think of the children” – Oldest political trick in the book
And you’ve got your facts all wrong. The FBI cannot get into the phone because they only get ten chances to manually enter the correct password before the data is permanently lost. Because of this, they are specifically demanding that Apple develop code to bypass safety features, allowing them digitally input the passwords with unlimited attempts (Aka Brute Force).
If Apple agrees, then they’ve just proved to the world that it’s possible to break into an iPhone, worse yet that’s it’s possible to do remotely (digital input). And you can bet that other groups will start to replicate it. Your “Watchdogs” cannot stop Russian/Chinese hackers.
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